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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Mar 22nd 2021 at 7:31:02 AM •••

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Named after something that is the opposite, started by Servbot on Feb 19th 2011 at 1:36:07 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
IndirectActiveTransport You Give Me Fever Since: Nov, 2010
You Give Me Fever
Mar 9th 2014 at 7:41:54 PM •••

Removed these.

  • Umaga's Samoan Spike, an extremely strong thumb jab to the throat.
  • Santino Marella's Cobra, jabbing his fingers into the opponent's throat, often while wearing a cobra puppet on his hand.

Now, I suppose a case could be made for the Cobra, just for how ridiculous it is played up to be but the Samoan spike was never presented as "minimal effort". Umaga threw the thing as hard as any punch, clothesline or elbow drop in wrestling tend to be.

That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes
LightWarden Since: Jan, 2001
Mar 30th 2010 at 5:36:02 PM •••

Any possibility of using an actual image of someone taking someone down with one finger? Does this work or is it not really that clear as to what's going on?

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Night Since: Jan, 2001
Aug 19th 2010 at 1:06:34 PM •••

I have to admit, that looks a lot like a fist.

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SonofRojBlake Since: Jan, 2001
Dec 2nd 2010 at 4:22:12 AM •••

My best friend at school and I invented a martial art that was basically this trope. A single index finger to the upper arm created excruciating, unbearable pain, rendering the enemy incapacitated. We called this deadly art "Chu Mai Pu". Hey, we were fourteen years old, it was funny.

ZombieAladdin Since: Nov, 2010
Sep 24th 2012 at 11:57:10 AM •••

Here's another example from One Piece. It's not as good as the one on the article right now, if you ask me, but it is a really simple image that definitely shows a Finger Poke of Doom just happened.

Edited by ZombieAladdin
MithrandirOlorin Since: May, 2012
May 23rd 2012 at 12:18:21 AM •••

The Trope namer doesn't really even fit how it's defined here. It had nothing to do with how Strong Hogan was. But rather an exaggerated parody of a bribed Boxer taking a dive. I actually rather loved the moment.

I feel like it should be mentioned how WWF mocked this event like a week or so latter with Vince trying to order Kane to lay down for Rock.

207.58.204.42 Since: Dec, 1969
Apr 9th 2011 at 11:47:44 AM •••

The WCW Fingerpoke of Doom happened on January 4th, 1999, not in 1998.

MightyKombat And? And? And? And? AND? Since: Jan, 2001
And? And? And? And? AND?
Jan 22nd 2011 at 9:43:45 PM •••

Much as I'm glad we're cutting down on the Nanoha images, the new image is showing superman flicking Gorilla Grodd. Wasn't the trope about poking someone to death explosively?

Oh hang on its still a one finger takedown I guess. But the title still references finger pokes so should it be changed?

Edited by MightyKombat I'm quite confident in my shitposting you know
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